KJV Dictionary - gnaw
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GNAW
GNAW, v.t. naw. Gr. to scrape.
1. To bite off by little and little; to bite or scrape off with the fore teeth; to wear away by biting. The rats gnaw a board or plank; a worm gnaws the wood of a tree or the plank of a ship.
2. To eat by biting off small portions of food with the fore teeth.
3. To bite in agony or rage.
They gnawed their tongues for pain. Rev.16.
4. To waste; to fret; to corrode.
5. To pick with the teeth.
His bones clean picked; his very bones they gnaw.
GNAW, v.i. naw. To use the teeth in biting.
I might well, like the spaniel, gnaw upon the chain that ties me.
Definition from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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